Solomon, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.4 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Solomon, City Of at a glance
Solomon, City Of serves about 993 people through 509 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Dickinson County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2004105; phone on file: 785-655-3311. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 3.2 ppb from 2.2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Solomon, City Of is 5.4 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.4 ppb |
How Solomon, City Of compares
Of the 832 Kansas systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.4 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 35 have gone over at some point. Solomon, City Of's 5.4 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Kansas and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
12 other systems share Dickinson County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Solomon, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Abilene, City Of | 6,468 | 0 (not detected) |
| Herington, City Of | 2,332 | 1.3 ppb |
| Dickinson Co Rwd 2 | 1,703 | 1.3 ppb |
| Chapman, City Of | 1,377 | 4.13 ppb |
| Dickinson Co Rwd 1 | 879 | 1.9 ppb |
| Enterprise, City Of | 714 | 4.4 ppb |
| Hope, City Of | 312 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodbine, City Of | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
| M And M Mobile Home Court 2 | 80 | 3.5 ppb |
| Red Bud Lake Improvement District | 56 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Solomon, KS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Solomon, KS may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Solomon, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.